Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-07-31

Richard X. Fox ID doing tbs lakes Of
killarney.
Is. Oampbsu, VITO Won The Orange
tennis tournament, 10 bus Is years Of
ere.
A nsv bicycle club has besn started ct
Sc. Louis - Be known as the 81 Louis
Bicycle Cub.
Masready, tbs Irish raclng 'eyelist,
uses ths Iightszt tFicycle ever made; its
weight Il tgenty-ssVsn poandA
A professional athletic meeting, on .
large SCALE. is 70 takasulaoe a. the Brook
Ign Athletic Club grounds. on SsDtem.
Der f0ih. Cash prizss 70 the amount Of
5000 will be given, besides champion
ship medals.
II a safd that Steve Brodie, the bridge
Jumper. IL matched 10 swim Little Joe.
81 Warren Lswis' Pimlioo Hoeel. from
for $500 q side.
Sixiy-one dog fighters we're arrested
IN Chloago last Sunday morning. Ten
OF the party. escaped By taking to the
sewer and getting out at . man hole
two blocks away.
Lambert, the champion court tennis
player Of Eagland, Il thinking Of CON-
ING 70 this country for the purpose Of
making Q match with the American
champion, Petit.
James Pascos, the noted Cornish
wrestler, has made match 10 wrestle
Mcmahon, the champion Of Illinois. at
Baker CITY, Oregon. The match is for
5000 side, best thres IN I'VE. Cornish
style.
Phil Casey, ex aldermsu 81 Brooklyn
aud champion hand bali player Of
America, IL TO play haul ball on AuR. 4,
at Cork, against Joh1 LewloF, cham
pion Of Ireland, for $4,000 . side and
tAe championship Of the world.
SchaefeE and Vignaux met in Paris
and agreed 10 play . game Of billiards
on OctobeE 10th At the Grand Hotel IN
that city for $1,000 and all entrances mon
OF 10 the winner. The game Is 10 be
5000 points upon fourteen iueh baik
line.
Today the largest pigeon shoot ever
shot on this coast will come of ct San
| Brano. Two teams Of Is men aside
will shoot sc 800 birds, eaoh team for q
| frst class dinner. Auit Of the Custom
house captains one team, and ex Police
Judge Rix, the other.
Ga Tuesday, the 18th inst, Thomas
b lWerman, Of Irvineton, N. j., sent
Henry Wagner, Of ROslindale, Mass, g
booming pigeon 10 weeks old. Il escspsd
from Mr.. Wagner on the same Gay.
Saturday Mr.. BoweFman sent note
saying that he foand the bird Ia his
coop on Thursday morning. This Is. q
remarkable performance, as the bird
had never been trained and the distance
is about 200 miles.
The English Athletes who, according
| TO q cableRFam from Mr.. SAKE to George
A. Avery, Of the Manhattan Athletic
Club, will take part 10 the champion
ship games at New York, on September
IL. are O. J. X. Gross, wac has record
Of As for g mile; lie Maltre, Who can
run half mills within two minutee; i.
Ray, who holds the worlds champion
ship OF eleven feet i've inches for the
pole vault; Z. Lsaver, who beat Carter
easily in q dAiIs run IN Gi28 8 aud O. q.
Wood, Who holds the worlds champion.
ship for the go yards IN 81 Z 5 seconds,
and won the quarter mile last year In
- seconds.
The Montreal Gazette prints several
very complimentary illusions to the
b lstOn Lacrosse Club, which purposes
making q Canadian tour. and expresses
the hope that there will be q good game
in that city. The intention is to start
about Aug. 8. Clubs in several paris Of
Canada have been communicated With,
and the probability is that the first
game will be in Montreal, and the SEQ
oud AID third In Rockville and Ottawa.
Word has come from Peterb9ro that q
game cannot be arranged there. No
answer has yet been received from To
rontO.
Renshav, the champion tennis player
Of the world, is liable 10 lose bis title,
or has probably lost Il By this time. The
championship was TO have been decided
on July 4sh, al Wimbledon, but 81 yet
no cabieRram has been received stating
the result. Renshav 10 suffering from
what is known as tennis elbow and his
physician advised bin TO discontinue
practice and not to think Of playing in
the Tournament on July 4th. Renshaw
IL badly broken up on account Of bic in
ability to defend the title which be has
for 50 long held, bat he will challenee
the winner OF the tournament as soon
as bis arm will permit.